1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457080803321

Autore

Wood Ian S

Titolo

Crimes of loyalty [[electronic resource] ] : a history of the UDA / / Ian S. Wood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2006

ISBN

9786610501601

1-280-50160-X

0-7486-2687-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Disciplina

941.60824

Soggetti

Political violence - Northern Ireland - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Northern Ireland Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Joining Up: The Origins of the UDA; 2 Victory: The UDA and the 1974 Ulster Workers' Council Strike; 3 After the Strike: Political Initiatives and Political Defeats; 4 The Campaign against the Anglo-Irish Agreement and 'Common Sense'; 5 The UDA at War; 6 Fighting On; 7 Simply the Best: the Rise of Johnny Adair and C Company; 8 Ceasefire and an Uncertain Peace; 9 Signing Up to Peace? The UDA's Road to the Good Friday Agreement; 10 War within Loyalism; 11 Endgame for Johnny Adair; 12 A 'Post-War' UDA and the Issue of Collusion

13 Hands across the Sea: The UDA in ScotlandPostscript; Appendix A Brief Biographies; Appendix B A Chronology of the Troubles; Appendix C Organisations and Initials; Appendix D Responsibility for Deaths, 1966–2003; References and Sources; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Sectarian murder, torture, bloody power struggles and racketeering are what for many define their image of the Ulster Defence Association. This book explores issues such as the UDA's descent into criminality and its relationship with the 'secret war' conducted by Britain's undercover services.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996309078503316

Titolo

The book of Job : aesthetics, ethics, hermeneutics / / edited by Leora Batnitzky and Ilana Pardes ; contributors, Robert Alter [and nine others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-039398-0

3-11-033879-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Collana

Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts, , 2199-6962 ; ; Volume 1

Classificazione

BC 6730

Disciplina

223/.106

Soggetti

Social sciences

LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Hermeneutics / Batnitzky, Leora / Pardes, Ilana -- Is the Book of Job a Tragedy? / Hirschfeld, Ariel -- Job, the Mourner / Halbertal, Moshe -- Whose Job Is This? Dramatic Irony and double entendre in the Book of Job / Meshel, Naphtali -- Reading Pain in the Book of Job / Raz, Yosefa -- Melville's Wall Street Job: The Missing Cry / Pardes, Ilana -- Kafka's Other Job / Liska, Vivian -- Joban Transformations of the Wandering Jew in Joseph Roth's Hiob and Der Leviathan / Hasan-Rokem, Galit -- Hebrew Poems Rewriting Job / Alter, Robert -- The Bible on the Hebrew/Israeli Stage: Hanoch Levin's The Torments of Job as a Modern Tragedy / Rokem, Freddie -- Beyond Theodicy? Joban Themes in Philip Roth's Nemesis / Batnitzky, Leora -- Notes on Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics and Hermeneutics offers new perspectives on the ways in which Job's response to disaster has become an aesthetic and ethical touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events. This volume begins with an exploration of questions such as the tragic and ironic bent of the Book of Job,  Job as mourner, and the Joban body in



pain, and ends with a consideration of Joban works by notable writers - from Melville and Kafka, through Joseph Roth, Zach, Levin, and Philip Roth.